Which Community and Business Groups Should Transition to Working Group

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Introduction

This public wiki holds notes related to the 2013 Headlights task force on Which Community and Business Groups Should Transition to Working Group.
The task force is open to anyone. Contact Coralie Mercier <coralie@w3.org>.

Goal to potentially end up with a dedicated W3C Working Group to provide server specific specifications.

Locations and Addresses (Andrea Perego)

2012-08

active

n

spec

WG without schedule

Read Write Web (Melvin Carvalho)

2011-08

active

n

forum+spec

No transition to WG

Too early, not enough impl.

Augmented Reality (Augmented Web) (Rob Manson)

2011-08

active

n

forum

Once the MediaStreams (gUM), Web Audio and WebRTC standards stabilise and become more widely available in browsers there will be a significant increase in our activity as people really start using the Augmented Web in production applications.

Web media text tracks (David Singer)

2011-09

active

near completion

spec

WG within 6 months

under discussion with Philippe, and other chairs

MicroXML (Uche Ogbuji)

2012-07

active

near completion

spec

WG without schedule

Considering transitioning to XML Core WG. Group drafted a spec, now folks work on implementations.

Speech API (Glen Shires)

2012-04

active

near completion

spec+forum

WG without schedule

Transition strategy is for the specification to become part of future HTML and/or WebApps work.

EXPath (Florent Georges)

2012-04

active

n

spec

WG without schedule

Revising W3C process (chaals)

2011-11

forum

Script Library (Mike Taylor)

2011-11

inactive

n

forum

No transition to WG

Close CG?

VIVO Open Research Networking (Jonathan Corson-Rikert)

2011-11

inactive

n

forum

Geospatial Semantic Web (Alejandra Garcia Rojas)

2012-12

active

n

forum

Responsive Images (Marcos Caceres)

2012-02

active

n

spec

Spec already in WG

Too early, not enough impl.

Ontology-Lexica (Philipp Cimiano)

2011-07

active

near completion

spec

No transition to WG

WG = too much bureaucracy

Key players not W3C Members

discussed with Ivan Herman who recommended to produce a vocabulary and host it under W3C Vocab.